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I'm not familiar with Debian, but with Redhat all I did was do the install and almost everything was already setup. Doing the cert really isn't that hard. They will normally give you help when you purchase it.

Seems like I saw an RPM that had Apache, Php4, and mySQL, but I don't remember where.

I think I've got everything installed now. PHP and MySQL were easy enough, just mail and FTP I'm not to sure about now. They're both installed its just a config thing now. It's all a bit different without the control panel!

At the moment the domain is still pointing to my old server. The idea is that I get the new one ready and then transfer the domain. I'm still stuck with the FTP but more importantly I need to get the mail up and running.

I've installed sendmail but without any domain pointing to the machine will it be possible to get it setup and test it is working? All I want to do is setup a mailbox like 'info@example.com' so it ready for when I transfer the domain. Any tips for me anyone?

Well I've now got the FTP sorted and I sendmail is almost there. The only problem I have now is that when I try to send an email to the server I get the 550 error, relaying denied. I've set my mail client to use authentication when sending and as far as I know I've done configured the server correctly (sasl etc).

Does anyone know if I am getting this error because I have no domain pointing to my machine at the moment? I can send mail locally from the shell. Should sending email to user@IPADDRESS work or am I trying the impossible without getting my domain pointing to it?